diff --git a/hapi-fhir-client-okhttp/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/okhttp/client/OkHttpRestfulClient.java b/hapi-fhir-client-okhttp/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/okhttp/client/OkHttpRestfulClient.java
index 48b5a224503..f55aa7b79f4 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-client-okhttp/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/okhttp/client/OkHttpRestfulClient.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-client-okhttp/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/okhttp/client/OkHttpRestfulClient.java
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ public class OkHttpRestfulClient implements IHttpClient {
 		}
 
 		addUserAgentHeader(theHttpRequest, theContext);
-		addAcceptCharsetHeader(theHttpRequest);
 		MethodUtil.addAcceptHeaderToRequest(theEncoding, theHttpRequest, theContext);
 		addIfNoneExistHeader(theHttpRequest);
 	}
@@ -145,10 +144,6 @@ public class OkHttpRestfulClient implements IHttpClient {
 		theHttpRequest.addHeader("User-Agent", HttpClientUtil.createUserAgentString(theContext, "okhttp"));
 	}
 
-	private void addAcceptCharsetHeader(OkHttpRestfulRequest theHttpRequest) {
-		theHttpRequest.addHeader("Accept-Charset", "utf-8");
-	}
-
 	private void addIfNoneExistHeader(IHttpRequest result) {
 		if (myIfNoneExistParams != null) {
 			addIfNoneExistHeaderFromParams(result, myIfNoneExistParams);
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-client/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/rest/client/apache/BaseHttpClient.java b/hapi-fhir-client/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/rest/client/apache/BaseHttpClient.java
index 542dca878c6..c7c51dcf8f7 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-client/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/rest/client/apache/BaseHttpClient.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-client/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/rest/client/apache/BaseHttpClient.java
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ public abstract class BaseHttpClient implements IHttpClient {
 		}
 
 		theHttpRequest.addHeader("User-Agent", HttpClientUtil.createUserAgentString(theContext, "apache"));
-		theHttpRequest.addHeader("Accept-Charset", "utf-8");
 		theHttpRequest.addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
 
 		addHeaderIfNoneExist(theHttpRequest);
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_4_0/5962-remove-use-of-deprecated-accept-charset-header.yaml b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_4_0/5962-remove-use-of-deprecated-accept-charset-header.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a8437587798
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_4_0/5962-remove-use-of-deprecated-accept-charset-header.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+type: fix
+issue: 5962
+title: "The default use of the Accept-Charset header has been removed as its use is deprecated. Thanks to Jens Villadsen for the suggestion and pull request!"
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-jaxrsserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jaxrs/client/JaxRsHttpClient.java b/hapi-fhir-jaxrsserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jaxrs/client/JaxRsHttpClient.java
index a296c000f67..a929560c2a5 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-jaxrsserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jaxrs/client/JaxRsHttpClient.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-jaxrsserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jaxrs/client/JaxRsHttpClient.java
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ public class JaxRsHttpClient implements IHttpClient {
 		}
 
 		theHttpRequest.addHeader("User-Agent", HttpClientUtil.createUserAgentString(theContext, "jax-rs"));
-		theHttpRequest.addHeader("Accept-Charset", "utf-8");
 
 		Builder request = theHttpRequest.getRequest();
 		request.acceptEncoding("gzip");